Chapter 2850 The Driving Force Is Profitable

When facing laymen, Zhou Buqi can talk a lot about open source, but in front of industry elites like Lu Qi, he can only ask for advice humbly.

Obviously, Lu Qi's words gave him a deeper understanding of the open source community.

Zhou Buqi said: "You mean, we shouldn't really use the free idea to face open source products?"

Lu Qi said: "After all, there are still a few engineers who have ideals and enthusiasm for code. Most people still write code for a living. In the past, we all thought that the open source community was a free public space... Of course, this is also possible. Most open source communities are purely public welfare and free. However, if we want to make better use of the open source community and the hundreds of millions of developers on Gitgub, we should have a new idea. After all, our promotion of the construction of the open source community is not a public welfare, but also a large commercial factor."

Zhou Buqi narrowed his eyes, "We need to allocate funds for our open source projects."

Lu Qi nodded and said: "Google has an unparalleled influence in the open source community. If it is a free service, we can enjoy the fruits of the labor of engineers who are passionate, idealistic and faithful... These People's first choice must be Google. In this regard, it is difficult for any technology company to compete with them. "

Zhou Buqi also thought it made sense and said, "It is true. If it is free, most open source developers will go to serve Google. There will be nothing left on Ziweixing. In this case, it is better to spend some money. "

Lu Qi continued: "In this world, some of the top Internet projects are generally only affordable by China and the United States. Even if the outstanding engineers in Europe, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia, India, Brazil, and Russia have strong technical strength, it is difficult to have the opportunity to show their talents. Those who are capable have gone to Silicon Valley to pursue their dreams. But most of them will still stay in their own countries. So these people have a strong need to show their technical talents, which is the core external force for the construction of the open source community. "

Hearing him say this, Zhou Buqi has a deeper understanding of the open source community of the Internet.

This is a kind of self-recognition and self-achievement.

This is just like many people writing articles, comments, and serial novels on the Internet.

It is not for making a living and making money.

Instead, we should do something that can make ourselves exist in society, and leave some visible and tangible traces of our existence in the world. It is not like coming and going like a wild goose, and living a lifetime is like never coming to this world.

However, if there is a certain amount of financial stimulation in this process, it will be more effective and more attractive, and it will form a trend-like trend, allowing more talented people to participate.

For example, Toutiao, one of the core products of Ziweixing.

If the above articles are all free, of course there will be many writers who will participate in writing articles without pay, just out of hobby. But the number is too small after all, and there is a competitive relationship. Many bloggers may choose other platforms to publish articles.

If commercial means are adopted, and a certain amount of payment is made for the fruits of their labor, this attraction will be great.

Even if it is just to make some pocket money?

The income from pocket money is also a reflection of the value of one's own labor results.

Especially more importantly, there are only a few developed countries in the world, and the economic income in most places is not high. Even many talented people, trapped by the objective environment, find it difficult to make a lot of money.

What some high-income groups consider pocket money can become an important income subsidy for these people.

In modern society, commercialization can form scale.

Profitability is the driving force.

Sure enough, Lu Qi then elaborated on a similar point of view, "There are many IT engineers in South America, North and Central America, India, and Central and South Asia, but their income is extremely low, and the year-on-year income is less than one-tenth of that in Silicon Valley. If it is an open source project, it will be even lower."

"Are there any data?"

"In Silicon Valley, Internet companies pay up to $20 for a line of code. But open source is different. There is no social insurance, no company benefits, no management costs, and no need to pay for ineffective work. It is directly charged by results. A bonus system can be adopted. Only if you make substantial contributions to open source projects can you get money; if you don't make contributions, there will be no bonus. The cost of a line of code can be compressed to less than $1."

"$1 is also quite high, right? It's not much less than in China!"

Zhou Buqi vaguely remembered that Guo Pengfei talked about the cost of code.

In China, in first-tier companies like Ziweixing and BAT, excluding the large amount of copy-pasted code, the cost of writing a line of code independently is about 3-4 US dollars.

This is the cost paid by the company.

The actual employee may only get 2 US dollars.

In addition, there are many open source projects in the open source community, and developers can choose what they like, are interested in, and are good at to participate in. Working in a company, but there is no choice. If you have the right to choose, you may be able to write 100 lines of valid code a day, but if you don’t have the right to choose, you may not even write 50 lines.

Calculated in this way, it’s actually about the same.

Lu Qidao: "Yes, this is also true in China. Many programmers' wages are very low. Even in China, because the number of engineers is too large, it is difficult for many engineers to find jobs that match them. Being able to participate in open source projects and earn some extra money, this Income can change their lives to a great extent.”

"Well, China is training IT engineers in a standardized and streamlined way."

When it comes to China, Zhou Buqi knows it all too well.

The domestic education system is too strong.

Coupled with the large domestic population and the computer craze in recent years, the country has cultivated a large number of IT practitioners, and the number is shocking. "There are more wolves and less meat", which leads to the wolves being worthless and being eliminated early.

Many IT engineers in Europe and the United States can work until they are 60 years old and still write code.

It’s almost impossible at home.

The 35-year-old limit is already showing.

When a programmer reaches the age of 35, if he cannot be promoted to management, he will most likely be eliminated by the market. Even if a 35-year-old employee with strong skills has an annual salary of only 150,000, the company will lay off and hire a new graduate with weak skills and no work experience but an annual salary of 200,000.

Because the former has lost its imagination.

A fresh college student, that is, in his twenties, has a bright future and is full of imagination. Even if you are a little immature for the time being, there are endless possibilities in the future. Even if it's a little worse now, it's possible to create tens of billions of value for the company in the future.

This has caused many outstanding engineers in China to encounter the dilemma of finding a career.

I even changed careers at the age of 35.

All your skills are wasted and have no use.

That's such a shame.

If the open source community is attractive enough, you can use your free time to participate in several open source projects in the open source community, and then earn some open source project allowances... which is also a lot of money. This is especially true in places like India, Southeast Asia, and South America. The wages are pitifully low, which is much crueler than the domestic industry status quo. If they have the opportunity to make dollars in the open source community, that's a huge attraction.

If Ziweixing International changes the promotion idea of ​​open source projects from a free model to a "bonus" incentive model, it can attract more outstanding IT engineers from around the world to participate, and everyone can work together to promote the improvement and optimization of Ziweixing's open source projects. .

Lu Ji said: "I believe that there are many excellent engineers hidden in many countries, but they may not have the opportunity to come to Silicon Valley to work in Silicon Valley if they have the technical ability. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the open source community, certain talent screening can also be carried out. Once they appear, "If we create new open source leaders, whether they are Indians, Colombians, Vietnamese, or South Africans, we can issue job visa invitations and provide them with opportunities to work in Silicon Valley."

Zhou Buqi closed the coffin and said conclusively: "Okay, let's do it! Next is the era of artificial intelligence. If you want to train top-notch large models, the efforts of the open source community must be indispensable. The long-term competition with Google will have a negative impact on the open source community." The use of it is an important means for us.”